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3045-3054

  • بز مرا که بز میانه ست و وسط ** روبها خرگوش بستان بی‌‌غلط 3045
  • The goat is mine, for the goat is middle and intermediate; do thou, O fox, receive the hare, and no mistake!”

  • شیر گفت ای گرگ چون گفتی بگو ** چون که من باشم تو گویی ما و تو
  • The lion said, “O wolf, how hast thou spoken? Say! When I am here, dost thou speak of ‘I’ and ‘thou’?

  • گرگ خود چه سگ بود کاو خویش دید ** پیش چون من شیر بی‌‌مثل و ندید
  • Truly, what a cur the wolf must be, that he regarded himself in the presence of a lion like me who am peerless and unrivalled!”

  • گفت پیش آ ای خری کاو خود بدید ** پیشش آمد پنجه زد او را درید
  • (Then) he said, “Come forward, O thou self-esteeming ass!” He approached him, the lion seized him with his claws and rent him.

  • چون ندیدش مغز و تدبیر رشید ** در سیاست پوستش از سر کشید
  • Inasmuch as he (the lion) did not see in him the kernel (real understanding) and right consideration of right conduct, he tore the skin off his head as a punishment.

  • گفت چون دید منت از خود نبرد ** این چنین جان را بباید زار مرد 3050
  • He said, “Since the sight of me did not transport thee out of thyself, a spirit like this (thine) must needs die miserably.

  • چون نبودی فانی اندر پیش من ** فضل آمد مر ترا گردن زدن‌‌
  • Since thou wert not passing away (from thyself) in my presence, ’twas an act of grace to smite thy neck (behead thee).”

  • کل شی‌‌ء هالک جز وجه او ** چون نه‌‌ای در وجه او هستی مجو
  • Everything is perishing except His face: unless thou art in His face (essence), do not seek to exist.

  • هر که اندر وجه ما باشد فنا ** کل شيء هالک نبود جزا
  • When any one has passed away (from himself) in my face (essence), (the words) everything is perishing are not applicable (to him),

  • ز آن که در الاست او از لا گذشت ** هر که در الاست او فانی نگشت‌‌
  • Because he is in except, he has transcended not (nonentity): whosoever is in except has not passed away (perished).